Tractor envy.

I've been a subscriber to Hobby Farms for about a year now, and hands down it's one of my favorite magazines.  If you're a budding small farmer or ambitious gardener, you'll read it cover to cover.  It's packed with stuff on organic agriculture, heritage animal breeds, ethical treatment of animals, how to build things, how to run an ecologically responsible farm, even articles on alternative energy (wind mills!) 

But the tractor ads generate a visceral response in me. I find myself running to my wife, "Honey, look at this".  She laughs in my face.  Whatever. It is pretty ridiculous, I guess.  Why do I want one?  I really don't know...I have absolutely no need for a $50,000 heavy farm tractor, and probably never will.  Then again, if I did need one, Hobby Farms has a pretty good Tractor Buying Guide